Mountaineer Nut Brown Ale

Formerly brewed at Mountaineer Brewing Co.
Style: Brown Ale
Martinsburg, West Virginia USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear light brown with small off-white head. Aroma is very light nut, not much lacing, and thin body. Taste is slightly sour nut and a hint of light caramel. Not a fan.

12oz bottle. Medium brownish amber in color with a small off-white head. Really nutty aroma, like a teabag almost with how many nuts there are. The flavor is surprisingly not bad. Big nuts, pecan and hazelnut, with some caramel malts but a weaker finish. A bit thin on the palate with average carbonation. Not bad actually. The best I’ve had from Mountaineer.

Not bad for the style--the chocolate malt is a nice addition, the nuttiness is highly pronounced, and the hops a bit restrained for style and origin. Drinkable! (local gas station, Fayetteville, Fayette Co.)

Bottle from Cavie. Light brown pour with a small head. Aroma is sweet, vegetal, and nutty. Taste is sour chocolate, nutty, roasted, and sweet.

Bottle via trade. Pours a clear orange color with a light ring of white head. Aroma is big chocolate malts, cocoa, caramel and nutty. Flavor is much the same. Lots of sweet malts and caramel sweetness. Not a bad sampling.

Hazelnut, caramel, milk chocolate nose. Very malty, slightly sour, chocolate. Fairly good depth. Light nutty finish.

12oz bottle, brown label. Medium brown color, no head. Aroma of raisin, toasted malt, a bit of butter. Blah. Flavor of roasted grains and sour apple. I was afraid it was infected. Once you get past the sour, it finishes with a chocolate malt character.

A nice, mild brown ale perfect for drinking a few. A short-lived fizzy head, with a wonderful malty, nutty, chocolate aroma. The taste is disappointing with malty and nutty flavors dominating. It sits watery and light bodied in the mouth and finsishes with very subtle roasted flavors, with woodsy nut flavors continuing. Overall it is, simply, a good brown ale.

Aroma is kind of nutty. First ever beer from West VA. A little watery with a big nut flavor. Pours a brown-esque color. Aroma is great and the nuttiness sticks all the way through but the rest is too thin. Almost there beer.

Clear dark brown pour, thin tan head. Coffee and nuts on the aroma, flavor had a bit of hazelnut some chocolate, hint of nut saltiness. Complex flavor, finish was a bit watery though.